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Paradise Dislocated: Morris, Politics, Art

Paradise Dislocated: Morris, Politics, Art

Skoblow, Jeffrey

Hardcover

Series: Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0813914396
ISBN13: 9780813914398
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Aug 16 1993
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Paradise Dislocated offers a radical rereading of William Morris's neglected masterpiece, The Earthly Paradise. While most critics have seen this poem as the antithesis of the radical socialist politics that Morris embraced later in his career, or, at best, as an awkward prelude to that later development, Jeffrey Skoblow proposes that The Earthly Paradise is in fact central to Morris's political vision-indeed, it is the most radical manifestation of that vision. Paradise Dislocated explores the problematic relations between critical thought, art, utopian aspirations, and dystopian realities. It proposes a revaluation of Morris's poem and of his career as a whole, as well as a judgement upon the possibilities (and impossibilities) of imaginative and cultural criticism at Morris's moment-and at our own.

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